With no neurons and no muscles Tplax moves through ultra-fast contractions of its skin cells.

Proof! quantum computing IS faster than your PC

Rice husks, concrete and a little time produce a 215 square foot house for about $1000

Why investigate small bodies? They likely delivered the building blocks for life to the Earth.

We’re going to name them “Dust Bunny” and “Fuzz”….

Scientists have revealed more information about mysterious interstellar object Oumuamua, and they think it might even be sent by aliens. Source: Scientist Claim to Discover Secret to “Oumuamua” Acceleration anhttps://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7277d It Could Be Alien Editor’s […]

Prosthetic advances keep on advancing!

Massive? How about a million-billion solar masses? 1.989 x 10 to the 45th!

The Parker Solar Probe has now become the closest man-made object to the sun, and it will keep on setting records.

An asteroid that acts like a comet, and leaves us the Geminid meteor shower

Take a look: this is the best imaging we’ve ever had of the chaos surrounding a black hole

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter. Source: NASA’s Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End | NASA Kermit WoodallKermit is […]

Large amounts of perchlorates in the Martian soil may help harbor life, while dust storms help hide the evidence

Thank you, Kepler – you’ve made the universe bigger for all of us!

Could we be untethered consciousnesses floating in our own delusions? Yes.

Where’s my flying car? HERE’s your flying car!

Dammit! Until we go there we just won’t know for sure!

A spacecraft with a mission to explore Mercury has been launched in a combined effort by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The aim of the mission is to study Mercury’s […]

A new report recommends we build a telescope to directly image Earth-like exoplanets. Astrophysicist Bruce Macintosh explains why that’s a good idea. Source: Why we need a new telescope to search for alien life – […]

Researchers at the University of Zurich have shown how space farming may be possible. By encouraging plants to excrete a certain hormone, they’ve demonstrated that crops can thrive despite challenging conditions, such as low-nutrient soil […]

NASA has announced that the Hubble telescope has been fixed. On October 5, the telescope suffered a failure of one of six gyros on board — instruments which measure the rotation of the craft. After […]

Oh Noes! Hubble goes into safe mode

Not one but TWO probes head towards the innermost planet

Most coverage of the first lunar landing doesn’t show the complete picture. But now you can see it better than ever before.

Look no farther than the deep sea for visions of alien life.

Ambitious, but full of holes

…and here’s one of the holes, at least according to some aerospace critics

Supernova continues to light up the sky long after its explosion

When “The Graduate” was advised to get into plastics, he probably didn’t have rocket fuel in mind